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Matthew Flinders private journal from 17 December 1803 at Isle de France to 10 July 1814 at London / edited and with an introduction by Anthony J. Brown and Gillian Dooley.
Record no.:
6453
Author:
Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814.;
Brown, Anthony J. (Anthony Jarrold), 1927-;
Dooley, Gillian, 1955-;
State Library of South Australia. Friends.;
Publisher:
Adelaide :: Friends of the State Library of South Australia,
Year:
2005.
Description:
xxxii, 566 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Subject:
Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814 Diaries.;
Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814.;
Explorers - Great Britain Biography.;
Voyages and travels - History - 19th century Sources.;
Australia - Discovery and exploration - English.;
Notes:
Map in the pocket of inside back cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 512-513) and indexes.
One folded map facing p. 340 (Plan of London from actual survey, 1832), one in back pocket (Australia, or Terra Australis).Noel Dan
Gift ;
2023.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
1876154454 9781876154455 1876154462 9781876154462;
Abstract:
Introduction -- The Cumberland log book 15 to 17 December 1803 -- Private journal: Cafe marengo 1803-4 ; Maison Despaux 1804-5 ; Plaines Wilhelms 1805-10 ; port Napoleon 1810 ; Cape Town 1810 ; England 1810-14 -- Appendix 1. Passport delivered to Flinders
by the French Government -- Appendix 2. Record of Captain Flinders' interrogation at Port North West, Isle of France, 19 December 1803 -- Appendix 3. Report of Captain-General Decaen to the Minister of Marine and Colonies on the arrest of Matthew Flinders at Isle of France -- Appendix 4. Flinders' letter to the Captain or Commander of His Majesty's ships regarding Thomy Pitot -- Appendix 5. Avis du Conseil d'Etat, approve par S.M. pour la mise en liberte du Capitaine Flinders, et la restitution de son batiment -- Appendix 6. Flinders' parole on leaving Isle of France -- Appendix 7. Questions relative to the I. of France proposed July 14, 1810 by Vice Admiral Bertie at the Cape of Good Hope -- Appendix 8. Flinders' last illness: the final five months of the Journal, February to July 1814: a medical interpretation / by Stephen Milazzo -- Glossary -- Notes on people, places and ships.

Flinders begins his journal at the time of his landfall on Mauritius in December 1803, and the subsequent entries describe his six years of imprisonment by the French, his eventual return to England and the events of his later life up until nine days before his death in July 1814.
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